EAST MOLINE, a city of Rock Island county, Ill., U.S.A., on the Mississippi river, adjoining Moline. It is served by the Burlington, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, the Rock Island, and the Davenport, Rock Island and Northwestern railways. The population was 8,675 in 1920 (28% foreign-born white), and was 10,107 in 1930 by the Federal census. It has im portant manufactures, similar to those of the neighbouring cities, including especially ploughs, scales, laundry machinery, engines, harvesting machinery, steel playthings and pressed steel. The city was incorporated in 1907.